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block whomever you want, but if you represent something bigger you will be judged

@sun maybe they just want it as a fun thing for the conference , maybe every one doesn’t want to debate over the merits of saying nigger and open source drama about who was gay on Github

@technolyze you can make a rule against saying nigger and not block 3/4 of the world

@sun but then you will be spammed by 400 people saying nigger then debating you about the rule to not say it

@technolyze bigger picture this is about conformity and sanitization, delegating authority in the hacker community and it has natural difficult contradictions

@sun defcon has been corporate for like 20 years at this point and dark fedi is unironically annoying if you just want to have fun with a diverse group of people that don’t want slurs screamed at them the second they post their opinions.

@technolyze doesn't address my point

@technolyze also I realize technical mitigations are not perfect and never will be but if you used good software you can just automatically filter content via mrf etc

@sun @technolyze I have never installed Mastodon anywhere so I can't compare the setup pain, but the last couple times I set up Pleroma and/or Akkoma it still seemed mildly daunting somehow ... just my $0.02 on why so many people continue using Mastodon when it's objectively a bloated pile of shit